Two Pairs, Different Jobs
Heat Gloves
Gloves for moving hot things: welder-style leather gauntlets for firebox and grate work, silicone or neoprene for pulling pork and handling wrapped meat, and thin nitrile underneath for anything you want to keep clean. Nobody who cooks over fire regularly has all ten knuckles unscarred; gloves are how you keep it to a few.
What it is
Gloves for moving hot things: welder-style leather gauntlets for firebox and grate work, silicone or neoprene for pulling pork and handling wrapped meat, and thin nitrile underneath for anything you want to keep clean. Nobody who cooks over fire regularly has all ten knuckles unscarred; gloves are how you keep it to a few.
How to choose
You want two pairs. Leather gauntlets with a long cuff for the fire: moving grates, adding splits, lifting a chimney. Insulated silicone or neoprene for the meat: waterproof, washable, and rated to a real temperature. Check the rating in degrees and the time it holds it, not just the number on the box. Cotton "heat resistant" gloves soak up grease and burn you through the wet spot.
Right tool
- Moving grates, baskets, and splits in a live fire
- Lifting a hot chimney or a dutch oven
- Pulling shoulder and flipping a whole hog by hand
- Handling paper-wrapped meat straight off the pit
Not the move
- Handling anything with hot liquid in cloth gloves
- Reaching into a pizza oven with anything but a long peel; gloves are not enough
- Cheap gloves with no stated temperature rating
The lineup
All Heat Gloves We’ve Tested
We haven’t cataloged any yet.